Improvement in bale-ties



NIA. HAVEN Bale-Tie.

Patented Ju'n-e 3, 1879.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

NATHANIEL A. HAVEN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT IN BALE-Tl ES.

Speciiieation forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,088, dated June 3, 1879; application filed April 30, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NATHANIEL A. HAVEN, of the city of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cotton-Ties, of which the following is a specification.

The invention relates to metallic hoops or ties for securing bales of cotton and other fabrics; and it consists in a cast-iron hook of peculiar shape, with a ridge or barb-strengthener on each side, and projections in lieu of IFig. 3 is a vertica-l edge view, and Fig. 4 is a horizontal edge view, showing the same projections and barb-strengthener.

A A represent the flat portion of the hook; B B,the ridge or barb, cast with and on each side of said hook,`so as to strengthen it where the strain is greatest.

"C C are two projecting pins or rivets, cast with and upon one flat side of the hook A A,

for inserting through corresponding holes in the hoop-iron to which said hook has to be at tached.

D is that part of the tie attached to the hook A A by the projecting rivets C C, and E is the other end of the said tie, caught over the hook A, as in use on a bale of cotton.

In order to make a bale-tie of my improved invention, I iirst make a mold embodying all the parts hereinbefore indicated as comprising the said hook, which it will be seen is peculiar in construction, the 4upper part, attachable to the hoop-iron, being iiat and straight until it commences about half-way in its length to turn, when it is formed in a curve like that of a block letter S, around which curved portion there is thrown on each side the barbed strengthener B B. The inside ofthe said hook is straight along the lower edge of the catch, so as to hold the end of the hoop properly. This mold is then placed in casting-sand in the usual manner for making iron castings, and the flat hook AA, with its barbed strengthener B B and rivet-projections C C, is cast of malleable iron in a single piece, thereby securing greater eeonomyin the character of the material used, as well as in the process of construction, than in any other cottontie now in use. After this hook is take-n out of the mold properly cast, the t\vo projections C C are put through two corresponding holes in a piece of hoop-iron of the proper length, and by means of a riveting-hammer the said hook is securely riveted to said hoop-iron, and the bale-tie is complete.

To apply the fastening on the bale it is only necessary that the loose end of the hoop-iron be turned and caught over the hook, as shown in Fig. l. f

1. A bale-tie composed of a hook-piece of malleable iron having a barbed strengthener and rivet-projections cast thereon, substantially as described.

2. A hookpieee for a bale-tie composed of the ilat hook A A, the barbed strengthener B B, v

the projections for fastening C C, all cast in one piece, in combination with a tie of hoopiron, substantially as shown and described. NATHANIEL A. HAVEN. Witnesses:

H. W. BANKAED,

C. GONRADT WALSH,

HENRY N. CHRISTIAN. 

